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The 2024 Midlevel Associates Survey
The Midlevel Associates Survey tracks overall job satisfactions of more than 3,500 third-, fourth- and fifth-year associates across Big Law. The survey results in a ranking of firms based on their overall score, which is made up of scores in 12 different categories, including compensation and benefits; training and guidance; relationships with partners and other associates; interest in and satisfaction level with the work; the firm’s policy on billable hours; and management’s openness about firm strategies and partnership chances. This year, associates expressed some concern over how their firms handled a downward shift in the market. In this package, you will find analysis of the survey results, the overall rankings and rankings on firms' technology, and highlights from associates' open-ended responses on what their firms can do better. -
The 2024 A-List
The A-List is The American Lawyer's ranking of those law firms that are operating on all cylinders, showing high performance not just on financial metrics, but across talent, diversity and social responsibility as well. The rankings measure success in revenue per lawyer, pro bono, diversity, female equity partner percentage and midlevel associate satisfaction. Revenue per lawyer and pro bono are double weighted. -
The 2024 Pro Bono Report
The Pro Bono Report is the definitive ranking of pro bono efforts across Am Law 200 firms. Published each July through the efforts of Law.com Compass and The American Lawyer editorial team, this report tracks the total number of pro bono hours performed both domestically and internationally as well as the average number of hours per lawyer and the number of lawyers who performed more than 20 hours of pro bono service for the year.
Across 120 responding law firms, pro bono hours continued on a steady climb in 2023, though these investments still don't quite match levels seen pre-pandemic and in 2020. Pro bono work at responding firms totaled 5.15 million hours in 2023—2.8% more than 2022, and 12.2% more than 2021. However, the total for 2023 is still well behind the 2020 mark of 5.45 million hours. Nevertheless, firms tackled a range of issues last year, working on behalf of veterans, migrants, members of the LGBTQ+ community and the incarcerated.
Below are all the rankings and analysis from the 2024 Pro Bono Report, including a special look at firms' investment in asylum work. The past three years of the Pro Bono Report can be found at the bottom of this page. -
The 2024 Diversity Scorecard
The Diversity Scorecard evaluates firms based on their ability to attract, retain and promote talent from demographics that are historically underrepresented in the legal industry. For the first time this year, the Women in Law Scorecard and LGBTQ+ Scorecard, traditionally published in tandem with the NLJ 500, are being published with the Diversity Scorecard. Going forward, all three scorecards will continue to be released annually as a single package.
Overall, Big Law's attorney ranks have gotten steadily (if incrementally) more diverse each year. Still, we know that aggregated statistics don't tell the whole story. Firm-to-firm stories vary significantly. In these scorecards, firms are scored based on their representation from these groups--overall, but also in partnership and leadership roles.
We hope these scorecards inspire ongoing progress on these fronts, but we are also mindful that DEI is a "team sport" in which the best kind of progress is industrywide progress. -
The 2024 Am Law 200
The annual ranking from The American Lawyer of US law firms ranked 101 through 200 by gross revenue, revenue per lawyer, and more. -
The 2024 Am Law 100
The Am Law 100 is the definitive ranking of the 100 largest law firms in the United States. Published each spring through the efforts of Law.com Compass and The American Lawyer editorial team, this report offers firm-by-firm data on key financial metrics and deep analysis of the cohort's performance and what it means for the rest of the market. Information includes an examination of revenue, profits, per-lawyer metrics, headcount growth and much more. The 2024 Am Law 100 explores the financial, market and management trends that led to many firms rebounding nicely from prior year declines brought on by economic and market conditions, softening demand and other challenges. While not a wholesale return to the historic highs of 2020 and 2021, fiscal 2023 brought collective growth in revenue, revenue per lawyer and profitability metrics. Meanwhile, equity partner ranks stayed the same size or even contracted, as nonequity partners (poised to outnumber their equity counterparts in the coming years) become more numerous. Below you will find our various rankings of The 2024 Am Law 100 along with several pieces of analysis of the market. The past three years of Am Law 100 reports can be found at the bottom of this page. -
The 2023 Midlevel Associates Survey
The Midlevel Associates Survey tracks overall job satisfactions of more than 4,000 third-, fourth- and fifth-year associates across Big Law. The survey results in a ranking of firms based on their overall score, which is made up of scores in 12 different categories, including compensation and benefits; training and guidance; relationships with partners and other associates; interest in and satisfaction level with the work; the firm’s policy on billable hours; and management’s openness about firm strategies and partnership chances. This year, associates expressed some concern over how their firms handled a downward shift in the market. In this package, you will find analysis of the survey results, the overall rankings and rankings on firms' technology, and highlights from associates' open-ended responses on what their firms can do better. -
The 2023 A-List
The A-List is The American Lawyer's ranking of those law firms that are operating on all cylinders, showing high performance not just on financial metrics, but across talent, diversity and social responsibility as well. The rankings measure success in revenue per lawyer, pro bono, diversity, female equity partner percentage and midlevel associate satisfaction. Revenue per lawyer and pro bono are double weighted. -
The 2023 Pro Bono Report
Our annual Pro Bono report details the Am Law 200's pro bono contributions. -
The 2023 Diversity Scorecard
The American Lawyer's Diversity Scorecard aims to track the efforts of large law firms to increase diversity among their U.S. attorney populations. This annual survey scores more than 200 law firms across a series of metrics, which are then rolled up into an overall diversity score. Not only do we track the static number of racially and ethnically diverse lawyers and partners in law firms, but we now also look at the percentage of minorities in leadership roles, in equity partner positions and among the hires, departures and promotions of partners. Detailed information on firms' performances can be found on Law.com Compass.
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The 2023 Am Law 200
American Lawyer's annual ranking of the US law firms ranked 101 through 200 by gross revenue, revenue per lawyer, and more. -
The 2023 Am Law 100
The AM Law 100 is a suite of surveys ranking the top 100 American law firms based on key performance metrics from law.com editorial and legal intelligence -
The 2022 Diversity Scorecard
A ranking of large law firms' diversity efforts across hiring and promotion. -
The 2022 Pro Bono Report
Assessing the pro bono commitment by the Am Law 200 in the United States and globally. -
The 2022 Am Law 200
The American Lawyer's annual ranking of the American law firms ranked 101 through 200 by gross revenue. -
The 2021 Am Law 200
The American Lawyer's annual ranking of the U.S. law firms ranked 101 through 200 by gross revenue. -
The 2021 Am Law 100
The American Lawyer's annual ranking of the 100 highest-grossing law firms in the country. -
The 2020 Pro Bono Scorecard
The American Lawyer's annual report on the legal industry's pro bono commitment. -
The 2020 Am Law 200
The American Lawyer's ranking of the firms ranked No. 101 through 200 in the United States, based on revenue. -
The 2020 Am Law 100
The American Lawyer's annual ranking of the 100 top-grossing U.S. law firms.
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The 2019 Laterals Report
The American Lawyer's annual report on the state of lateral hiring in the legal industry, including insights and analysis on the trends shaping the lateral market, as well as profiles of the year's most significant moves. -
Global 200 / The American Lawyer
The Second Hundred had a strong year but can't keep pace with the Global 100. -
The 2019 Global 100
The Global 100 posted a second straight year of significant growth, topping 8% revenue increase as a group. Our annual report takes you behind the numbers with details on where the growth came from, how international turmoil is helping some firms' bottom lines and where U.S. firms are focusing their global expansion. We also profile Baker McKenzie as the firm deals with tragedy, and unveil this year's China 45. -
The 2019 Pro Bono Report
The American Lawyer's annual report on the state of pro bono work in the nation's largest law firms, ranks The Am Law 200 firms based on the amount of pro bono work performed by the firm. Included for each firm are the average number of pro bono hours per lawyer and the percentage of lawyers with more than 20 hours of pro bono work. -
The 2019 Am Law 200
The American Lawyer's annual ranking of the Second Hundred top-grossing U.S. law firms. -
The 2019 Am Law 100
The American Lawyer's annual ranking of the 100 top-grossing U.S. law firms. -
Global 100 / The American Lawyer
The definitive ranking of global law firms. -
The 2018 Global 100
Our annual ranking of the world's 100 largest law firms shows there was plenty of growth to go around last year. -
Diversity Scorecard 2018
We publish the Diversity Scorecard each year to provide a snapshot of where the industry is headed. -
The 2018 Am Law 200
The 2018 edition of the Am Law 200 is, in many ways, a study in contrasts. There is a clear and growing gap between the overwhelming success of the Am Law 100 and the disappointing collective returns of the Second Hundred.
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The 2018 Am Law 100
The country's largest law firms thumbed their proverbial noses at tough market conditions, posting some of the most significant gains since the Great Recession. -
Corporate Scorecard
Corporate Scorecard is published by The American Lawyer each April and details the performance of the U.S. law firms with the most active corporate finance and capital markets practices. The information which is culled by a number of third-party sources, is gathered by ALM Legal Intelligence. Firms are ranked on both the number and value of the deals handled in specific transactional areas, including Asset-Backed Securities, Bankruptcy, Equities,High-Yield Debt, Investment-Grade Debt, IPOs, Mergers & Acquisitions,Mortgage-Backed Securities, Municipal Bonds, Private Equity, Project Financing,REIT Debt, and REIT Equities. -
A-List
The A-List, published annually in July, is based on rankings taken from four ALM surveys that ALM Legal Intelligence conducts throughout the year. Both revenue per lawyer and pro bono ranks are taken from the Am Law 200 while the Diversity Scorecard) and the Midlevel Associates Survey provide the diversity and associate satisfaction ranks, respectively. The A-List formula provides a collective measurement of the most successful and committed firms in the United States.
